12-letter words containing r, y, f
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inconformity — lack of conformity; failure or refusal to conform; nonconformity.
- indifferency — indifference.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- inframammary — (anatomy) Below the breast.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- jeffrey pine — a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- modificatory — modifying.
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- multiformity — having many different shapes, forms, or kinds.
- myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- oil refinery — plant where crude oil is processed
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- on your feet — position: standing
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- oversimplify — make too simple
- parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.